# 20230816

### Progress against our quarterly objectives

Alongside ongoing improvements, the team revamped the email signup components to enable Wellcome Collection’s future email strategy. This included a redesign of the bottom-of-the-page component, the addition of a new marketing opt-in, and some small copy updates to reflect our GDPR obligations.

We also had a kickoff with colleagues from Collections Information and Collection Care to initiate a longer-term effort to make offsite and/or manual requests available to request online. More on that to come!

#### Objective: Increase access to our collections

* Non javascript version of the item page can display links to the other volumes and the label of the current volume [#9966](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9966)

#### Objective: Improve the venue experience for people with specific access needs

* Prepare data on Exhibitions and events and Collections user data by device and browser for accessibility audit [#10127](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10127)
* Visual stories: Change Contact component for version with icons [#10104](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10104)

#### Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

* Relevance tests: reimplement existing rank tests with pytest [#681](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-api/issues/681), create skeleton CLI for relevance testing [#5710](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5710)

#### Objective: Increase discoverability across our collections and stories

* Remove Outros from Content pages [#10037](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10037)
* Remove hardcoded audience text for youth events [#10040](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10040)

### Focusing on next

#### Objective: Improve the venue experience for people with specific access needs

* Complete and document accessibility audit with Hassell Inclusion

#### Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

* Deploy refactored mapping and query for catalogue and image search
* Improve colour filtering for image search
* Deploy merged content and catalogue apps
* Run relevance tests in CI
* Measure relevance with continuous values
* Begin to experiment with displaying highly matching concepts in search results

#### Objective: Increase discoverability across our collections and stories

* Content design improvements
  * Events list on event-series
  * Discussion + Explanatory text

#### Other

* Widen time window of Kibana log link by adding an hour either side
* Document AWS accounts, Archivematica and the storage service
* Scope EBSCO work
* Knowledge sharing and documentation (handovers, audits, etc)
